Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz
September 23 – November 25, 1973
Ground Floor, Galleries G-11, G-12, G-13, G-19
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: 113 drawings from 12 Italian geographical areas included works by
After giving a cello concert at the Pierpont Morgan Library before the private opening of the exhibition in New York on December 11, the Hungarian-born Scholz, who was also celebrating his 70th birthday and the 40th anniversary of his arrival and first performance in this country, announced he would donate his collection of 1,500 Italian drawings and his reference books on the subject to the Morgan Library.
Attendance: 40,600
Catalog: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz, by Konrad Oberhuber and Dean Walker. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1973.
Other Venues: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, December 12, 1973–February 3, 1974
Titian’s Danaë from the Capodimonte Museum, Naples
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
Reinstallation of Bellini/Titian Feast of the Gods
Titian: The Flaying of Marsyas
From Leonardo to Titian: Italian Renaissance Paintings from the Hermitage, Leningrad
Titian and the Venetian Woodcut
Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz